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With the beginning of a new year came the need to approve the auditor’s report from last year’s financials during the Choudrant town council meeting on Monday.

Doug Brewer, certified public accountant for the village of Choudrant, said the village was in good financial shape.

“The village received an unmodified opinion which is the good kind of opinion, the best you can get,” he said. “The village ended in good, solid financial shape with a total net position of $4.9 million.”

Ammen Jordan and his family planned to stay in Ruston only three months when they came for a visit in November 2015.

Things changed. Now Jordan is the city’s first director of development. In the newly created position, the 40-year-old Arkansas native is responsible for implementing a variety of community projects that primarily deal with quality of life.

“The highest priorities are the bike trail on the old Rock Island corridor, the arts education center in the old Federal Building and the recycling program,” Jordan said.

NEW ORLEANS — Grambling State University students Robert Bailey Jr., Shelby Prout and Que Robinson weren’t on the Mercedes-Benz Superdome football field for a single play Saturday, but each had an impact on the Bayou Classic matchup between Grambling State University and Southern University.